Manageability

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 465 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

Would you like some management with that appliance?

Andi Mann recently wrote an interesting post about virtual appliances . He uses the domain name pleasediscuss.com for his blog so I figured I’d do just that....

0 replies - 300 views - 11/03/09 by vambenepe in News

Cloud platform patching conundrum: PaaS has it much worse than IaaS and SaaS

The potential user impact of changes (e.g. patches or config changes) made on the Cloud infrastructure (by the Cloud provider) is a sore point in the Cloud...

0 replies - 863 views - 10/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Thoughts on the “Simple Cloud API”

PHP developers with Cloud aspirations rejoice! Zend has announced a PHP toolkit (called the Simple Cloud API project) to abstract and access application-level...

0 replies - 678 views - 09/28/09 by vambenepe in News

Toolkits to wrap and bridge Cloud management protocols

Cloud development toolkits like Libcloud (for Python) and jcloud (for Java) have been around for some time, but over the last two months they have been joined...

0 replies - 435 views - 09/15/09 by vambenepe in News

Separating model from protocol in Cloud APIs

What happened to the separation between the model and the protocol in management APIs?

0 replies - 319 views - 09/09/09 by vambenepe in News

REST in practice for IT and Cloud management (part 1: Cloud APIs)

In this entry I compare four public Cloud APIs (AWS EC2, GoGrid, Rackspace and Sun Cloud) to see what practical benefits REST provides for resource management...

1 replies - 1235 views - 07/20/09 by vambenepe in News

William Vambenepe on SpringSource acquiring Hyperic

SpringSource’s Rod Johnson tells us today that his company just bought Hyperic. The press release is a bit more specific, announcing that SpringSource...

0 replies - 757 views - 05/05/09 by Masoud Kalali in News

A post-mortem on the previous IT management revolution

Before rushing to standardize “Cloud APIs”, let’s take a look back at the previous attempt to tackle the same problem, which is one of IT management...

0 replies - 1720 views - 04/28/09 by vambenepe in News

New release of Oracle Composite Application Monitor and Modeler

 

0 replies - 1116 views - 04/16/09 by vambenepe in Announcements

Managing the stack from top to bottom, including virtualization

The press release for the release of Oracle Enterprise Manager 10gR5 came out yesterday, but that’s not all: the Oracle VM Management Pack for...

0 replies - 671 views - 03/06/09 by vambenepe in News

WS Resource Access at W3C: the good, the bad and the ugly

As far as I know, the W3C is still reviewing the proposal that was made to them to create a new working group to standardize WS-Transfer, WS-ResourceTransfer,...

0 replies - 1895 views - 07/12/08 by vambenepe in News